Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 13:41:06 +0530 From: Sukhdev Singh Dear Professional Colleague, As, you are aware that Bibliographic Informatics Division at the National Informatics Centre, New Delhi is developing information resources for meeting information needs of bio-medical community with continued support from Indian Council of Medical Research. These are IndMED (Indexing of Indian Medical Journals, http://indmed.nic.in ) and MedIND (Hosting of full text articles of Indexed Indian Medical Journals, http://medind.nic.in ) resources. While IndMED indexes about 120 Indian Medical Journals, MedIND hosts full texts articles of 65 of these journals. Access to these resources is FREE without any registrations etc. These resources coupled with International Resources like PubMED serves as crucial information resources for bio-medical research and practice. While your institution's researchers, faculty as well as post-graduate students may be well aware of international information resources like PubMed, yet they may not be aware of national information resources like IndMED and MedIND. We are seeking your help to generate awareness of these national resources. You may organize IndMED / Medind Training-cum-Awareness Programmes at your organization. We can share our training material like PPT slides on IndMED and MedIND. If you require, we can also travel at our own expense to deliver lectures on topics like IndMED and MedIND databases, as well as on Internet Biomedical Information Resources, Copyright and intellectual property rights etc. If you planning to organize such awareness programmes with intention to invite us for delivering lectures, please let us know details in advance along with suitable dates. The target participants could be Medical researchers, medical professionals, Medical Library professionals and persons associated with medical journals i.e. Editors, publishers, executive members etc. There should be a minimum of 25-30 committed participants. The venue should have suitable infrastructure for projecting PPT Slides. Kindly note that our expenses of TA/DA will be borne by us. Any arrangements like tea or lunch for the participants could be met from your side. You may contact my colleague Mrs Rekha Gupta, Scientist-E with your proposal along with possible dates at her email id g.rekha@nic.in. (Phone 011-24305533). With regards, Sukhdev Singh Technical Director, Bibliographic Informatics Division National Informatics Centre A - Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road. New Delhi - 110003